I was at the Knicks game when he did that and I pointed out to the people who were watching the game with me that everybody thought he was just going to dribble it to half court for a time out but he ran past the Knicks player and got a foul call.

Harden zero contribution on defense but 100% eagerness on offense.If this how mchale wants his players to play he wont win a single game. I thought he was heavy on teaching defense? So did he teach harden any or defense is only for jlin to work on?

The irony of using Lin like a yo-yo on and off the bench when the lead has been cut is that it creates more pressure on Lin to try and save the game. Whereas, MDA intentionally started Lin so that he did not have the pressure of being "the savior." This is so counter-intuitive.

I want to point out the fact that most of Kemba's points today come from Douglas/Harden.

Fuck that intro Bart dickbag, talking about Lin's shitty performance against Kemba the last time the two teams met. Same thing happened there - Lin kept Walker to 50% of his points in double the time other players.

This game should have been like the Jazz game, but instead McHale got weird with his sub patterns and now the Rockets are down by 5 points and Lin doesn't look right in the 2nd half. He has 4 TO's and the coach benched him.

yes those where painful to watch, I really hope he can train himself not to jump across the lane to pass. I'm sure he will as he gets more time on the court, that will cut down his TO's. Otherwise he had a good game, and he should not be out the rest of the 4th but what else have we come to expect....

But what can Lin do? When he did well and his team went on a run, he went to the bench and only came back if the opposing team went on a run. When he did bad and the opposing team went to a run, he also went to the bench and wouldn't come back if his team went on a run. Lol.

Lin has only himself to blame. He turned it over or almost turned it over three straight possessions. He had easy plays to make and he made stupid ones. I can't imagine what he was doing but it was really bad luck to make those plays at that point. He gave McHale all the ammo he needed.

This is exactly what we were questioning in the early going.lin was playing excellent then the unexplainable sub patterns broke his momentum.jeremy can't continue with the fire he has bec mchale would throw ice on him.to me, if jeremy played poorly in the 2nd , we all know who to blame.Jeremy (this is mchale's answer)

Lin was subbed out and back in twice before the latest "shit" stretch. He helped bring the team back up 4 points in both prior subs. McHale subbed Lin in and out really destructively. You can't play a player for a few minutes at a time, sub them out, and then back in.

This is a GREAT example of how Bubba Gump Sampson and Kevin McHale completely ruined Jeremy Lin during the game. Lin started HOT this game, 8 assists 3 steals and 3 for 4 shooting by halftime. Also held Kemba to like 2 points in the 1st half (but Kemba scored against Harden and Douglas).

Lin kept getting yanked around in the first half. Same in the 3rd quarter. By the 4th quarter Lin was cold, lost all his momentum from all the benchings.

Looks like the game will end with Lin still with 8 assists and 3 steals. Basically, Bubba Gump Sampson succeeded in killing Lin's momentum this game.

At least Harden is about to get his triple double. Harden's defense is TERRIBLE. He guards nobody. He plays Ole defense. He must give up 30+ points every game if you add up every PG, SG, and SF who blows by Harden all game long.

It's nice they won and it's nice Lin got back in, but that stretch of turnovers, right after McHale had finally acquiesced to pressure and trusted him, that was enormously costly. Lin had chance to cement trust in him for the rest of the season and he squandered it. And you could see how scared he was by that horrible miss on the three pointer. I just don't understand what he was so scared about in this game. He has leverage! He doesn't need to be scared!

I think Houston is really trying to promote Harden. They won't lay off calling him their "all star". The haltime recap showed 4 replays, 3 of which were Harden's and only 1 was Lins. At that point Lin had 8 assists and Harden only 4.

But we do know that MDA has faith in Lin, let's players play through mistakes, and is not threatened by intelligent players. Lin could also learn from Nash so in that case, he doesn't have to outshine Nash... at least immediately, but he would eventually with that kind of support.

Rockets win and Lin had a good game. Lin had a great first half but then kinda just died down. Good win even though it shouldn't have been that difficult. Now some good rest and practice and Golden State. McHale still needs to work that rotation out. I thought it was a bit better but still Parsons had 44 minutes and Harden 40. Delfino was out so who knows.

I should mention that after he came back in the third he didn't get to be PG. It's clear Lin is not a good shooting guard, which is kind of sad, but a fact. He's even a bad passer when he plays shooting guard. So, that's half the reason he had that bad stretch. McHale is a clever man. Don't sub Lin out but put him in a position to fail.

McHale is not smart but I think it's Bubba Gump Sampson who is deliberately putting Lin down to help Harden and Douglas look better. It was Bubba Gump who sat Lin during the Portland game while McHale was out, the game Lin almost had a triple double and sat most of that 4th quarter and overtime (in a LOSS).